Supreme Court judge Samuel Kofi Marful-Sau is dead
Supreme Court Justice, Samuel Marful-Sau has been reported dead. In a Facebook post made by the convenor of #FixTheCountry demo, Barker H. Vogues, and sighted by GhanaWeb, the Supreme Court Justice is said to have passed on after contracting the deadly coronavirus. He said, “Supreme Court Justice Marful Sau has sadly! passed! It’s been speculated that it was COVID-19.” Samuel Kofi Marful-Sau was a Ghanaian judge, an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Marful-Sau was born in Assin Adubiase in the Central Region. After qualifying as a Barister-at-law 1984 he worked at the office of the Provisional National Defence Council and entered private legal practice prior to being called to the High Court bench in June 2002. He subsequently became an Appeal Court judge in 2006 and in 2018 he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He was nominated in 2018 by the president Nana Akufo-Addo in consultation with Council of State and the advice of the Judicial Council. Marful-Sau was born on 3 February 1956 at Assin Adubiase in th the Assin South District of the Central Region. He begun his formal education at Methodist Primary School in Assin Adubiase from 1963 to 1965. He continued his elementary education at Sempe ‘1’ Primary and Middle School in Accra from 1965 to 1969, he later enrolled at the Urban Council Middle ‘A’ School at Mankessim where he studied from 1969 to 1972. His secondary school education begun at Assin Manso Secondary School, Assin Manso, he later moved to Feden High School where he studied from September 1973 to June 1974. He later enrolled at Breman Asikuma Secondary School in September 1974. There, he received his Ordinary Level (‘O’-Level) certificate in June 1977. He proceeded to Navrongo Secondary School in September 1977 and obtained his Advanced Level (‘A’-Level) certificate there in June 1979. He entered the University of Ghana in August 1979 and graduated with his bachelor of laws degree in July 1982. He continued at the Ghana School of Law where he received his Barister-at-Law in 1984. In September 2008 he entered the University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland to pursue a Masters’ degree (LL.M) in Petroleum Law and Policy. He graduated in October 2009. Marful-Sau was admitted to practice in Ghana as a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor in 1984. He begun his career as a national service personnel working in the capacity of a Legal Assistant at the Castle Information Bureau Office of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and briefly as a prosecutor in the office of the Special Public Prosecutor from August 1984 to July 1986. During the period of his national service, he was selected to study a six-month course in Intelligence Studies at the Security and Intelligence Academy in Moscow, Russia. In July 1986, he was attached to the office of the PNDC, he remained there until September 1987. A month later, Marful-Sau joined Vidal. L. Buckle and Company as a private legal practitioner. While in private practice, his areas of expertise included: Nationality, Immigration, Corporate, Commercial and Insurance Law. He remained in private legal practice until June 2002 when he was called to the bench as a judge of the High Court. While in private legal practice, Marful-Sau was a member of the Law Reform Commission from August 1998 to October 2005 and a member of the Ghana Frequency Regulation Control Board from 1993 to 1998. He rose through the ranks as a justice of the high court to a justice of the appeal court, serving in that capacity from November 2006 to 2018 when he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Marful-Sau was nominated together with three other judges (Justice Agnes Dordzie, Justice Professor Nii Ashie Kotey and Justice Nene Amegatcher) by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo in 2018. After the names of the nominated judges were sent to parliament, there were claims that his appointment and the appointment of Justice Agnes Dordzie were rewards and not justified as their promotions occurred after they (Justice Samuel Marful-Sau and Justice Agnes Dordzie) recommended that the Electoral Commission Chair, Mrs. Charlotte Osei be removed from office. The government, however, dismissed these claims claiming the nominations were in consultation with the Council of State and based on the advice of the Judicial Council. —Ghanaweb Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
You Have Mismanaged Ghana Into A Debt Trap, High Fiscal Risks, External Vulnerabilities And Extreme Hardships Adongo Fires Dr. Bawumia
The Member of Parliament for the people of Bolgatanga Central Constituency and a member of finance committee Isaac Adongo has responded to the Vice President Dr. Bawumia after his TESCON program with the students of the University of Cape Coast. According to Dr. Bawumia, “When the NDC was in government, way before they took us to HIPC, they had mismanaged the debt level, such that we had very high inflation, high exchange rate depreciation, very high-interest rate, and low growth, that was the legacy they left” He concluded. However, Mr. Adongo in his response told Dr. Bawumia to stop the naivety and classical economic theories. Because he has mismanaged Ghana into a debt trap, high fiscal risks, external Vulnerabilities and extreme hardships. Below is the full response from Mr. Isaac Adongo to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia: Stop The Naivety and Classical Economic Theories. You have obviously mismanaged Ghana into A Debt Trap, High Fiscal Risks, external Vulnerabilities and Extreme Hardships. I have watched a video of Dr Mahmoud Bawumia at a TESCON Program at UCC trying so hard in an absurd manner to justify the mess he has run Ghana’s Economy into, in a similar fashion to his ill-fated attempt to run away from his technically deficient analysis of exchange rates developments and the fundamentals of the economy. Is it not this same man who once said ‘If you are in doubt, look to the exchange rate’? And that, ‘if the fundamentals of your economy are weak, the exchange rate will expose you’? We can all now see how the exchange rate has badly exposed Dr. Mahmoud Bawumia. Under Dr. Bawumia, the exchange rate was all over the place before it was rescued by Covid-19, with the dollar even breaking jail and Bawumia PhD made an unsuccessful u-turn with his warped logic concept. In the video gone viral, Dr Bawumia is heard admitting that the public debt is high though at high risk of debt distress but he then sought to imply that if you borrow unsustainably as they have done, it is prudent debt management and that leads to; Low inflation. Low interest rates Stable currency. Economic growth Improvements in standard of living of Ghanaians. Dr. Bawumia is so naive. Will he use inflation and exchange rate to pay for the debt? I am at pains to see how unsustainable debt levels that pose high risks of default could achieve any of those variables he listed above . Real practice over the last couple of years, has exposed Dr Bawumia’s lack of appreciation and technical deficiency in risk-based public debt management. Hence his consistent recourse to rate of debt accumulation and debt to GDP, even though important, are intermediate variables to measure the performance of risk-based debt management. Dr Bawumia is cunningly misleading people to engage in a less important variable of debt sustainability and risks of debt dynamics to the neglect of major drivers of quality of public debt and their impact on debt sustainability, fiscal risks and external vulnerabilities. For example, what is the relevance to debt sustainability and fiscal risk if you claim that the NDC recorded 200% debt accumulation and NPP 60% rate of accumulation but the NDC only used 56% of tax revenue to service that debt with 44% fiscal space to fund the budget whilst the NPP with less rate of accumulation uses 91% of tax revenues to service public debt with only 9% left to fund the budget as in 2021. It is important to underscore that, even the 91% debt service excludes for 2021; The suspended interest payments by some official creditors as part of covid-19 relief to Ghana. It also does not include the deferred interest payments on the zero coupon bonds. Which of these two economies is healthier; the one with 56% debt service but with a higher rate of accumulation or the one with 91% with lower rate of accumulation? Ironically, as the reality of how his naivity and technically flawed analysis has led us, Dr Bawumia is now finding succour in inflation and other variables to throw dust into our eyes. If Dr Bawumia has forgotten, he needs to be reminded of a few of his technically deficient understanding of the workings of major economic drivers. Viz; “Mallam-Atta Market inflation”. This is where Dr. Bawumia used just one or two markets and prices of less than 1% of the total basket of goods normally used by GSS to calculate inflation, to extrapolate for the entire country. Which serious economist does that? Even though it is trite knowledge that, no currency can depreciate beyond 100%, Dr. Bawumia, while in opposition, used faulty “Rate of Change” method to calculate Ghana’s currency depreciation and got some 200%. Any competent economist should have known that he got it wrong. But he didn’t even notice his technical deficiency. Ironically, he still had confidence to send the same cedi to the market to buy tomatoes and onions for Hajia Samira to prepare okro soup for him. Dr. Bawumia attributed exchange rate movements to the fundamentals of the economy without due consideration for exogenous shocks. When Covid-19 struck, forex demand pressures reduced significantly because Ghanaians we’re not importing due to lockdown etc, leading to relatively lower demand for the dollar. The exchange rate became stable as a result and Dr Bawumia attributed this Covid-19 induced stability to what he described as prudent economic management but dishonestly refuses to accept that the same prudent economic management should be blamed for the 0.4% growth of the economy in 2020. This is the height of dishonesty. I am extremely worried that Dr. Bawumia does not think about how our children are going to pay for his mess and the economic implications of the unsustainable debt burden on the public purse, crowding out of fiscal space to fund badly needed infrastructure and the hardships on Ghanaians that will result from the difficult fiscal corrections that will have to be made to bring the country to debt sustainability. Whilst
NPP set for Party Delegates Conference across the 275 constituencies
The National Office of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced to hold the Party’s annual Delegates Conference from August 21 to Friday, August 27, 2021. According to the release issued by the Party General Secretary John Boadu sighted by Apexnewsgh.com, the Delegates Conference will be held in all the 275 Constituencies across the country in accordance with reference to Article 7(27) of the Party Constitution Below is the full Press release: Press Release NPP TO HOLD 2021 CONSTITUENCY ANNUAL DELEGATES CONFERENCE The NPP will, from Saturday, August 21, 2021, to Friday to August 27, 2021, hold Constituency Annual Delegates Conferences in all the 275 Constituencies of the Country in accordance with reference to Article 7(27) of the Party Constitution. However, in view of the times we are in, the Party has directed all Party Executives, Members and for that matter Delegates to these Conferences to ensure that the Conferences are held in strict compliance with the following guidelines. 1. Delegates/Attendees to each Constituency Conference shall not exceed 250 people. In other words, the Conferences shall be held in groups of 250 on the average, at the same or different venues within the constituency depending on its peculiarities. 2. Each Conference shall be held in an open and airy environment 3. There shall be strict adherence to social distancing protocols 4. Delegates/Attendees to the Conferences shall at all times wear a face mask. 5. There shall be regular washing of hands and hand-sanitizing 6. The Conferences shall be held within 2 hours in line with the President’s recent directives. The Party is assuring its members and the general public that it is taking all the necessary steps to ensure strict adherence to these guidelines in the conduct of the Constituency Conferences across the country. Thank you. JOHN BOADU GENERAL SECRETARY Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
NABCO: We want to be able to do another programme by the end of October–President Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has said, his government want to do another programme as soon as beneficiaries of Nation Builder Corps (NABCO) are made permanent by the end of October 2021. However, information reaching Apexnewgh.com has it that qualified NABCO beneficiaries across the country numbering 72,900 in various modules, will be given permanent a employment in the public sector by the end of October 2021.Apexnewsgh reports President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made the revelation during an interview with Anthony Good Junior of Radio Bar, in Sunyani monitored by Apexnewsgh.com. According to the President, 72,900 out of over 90, 000 applicants have responded so far and these cut across all the various modules. Per President pronouncement during the radio interview, 25,000 NABCO beneficiaries will be maintained in Education Service, 16,000 beneficiaries will be maintained in Revenue Ghana, 13,000 beneficiaries will be maintained in Civil Ghana, 7,000 beneficiaries will be maintained in Digital Ghana, 5, 000 will be maintained Enterprise Ghana, 3,500 will be maintained in Feed Ghana and 2, 900 will be maintained in Heal Ghana by the end of October. President assured. However, not everyone will get the opportunity because, some have not responded to the questionnaire presented to them. Meanwhile, NABCO 3 year duration will be ending October 2021. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
GOOD NEWS: See what President is saying about NABCO
Information reaching Apexnewgh.com has it that qualified NABCO beneficiaries across the country numbering 72,900 in various modules, will be given permanent a employment in the public sector by the end of October 2021.Apexnewsgh reports President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made the revelation during an interview with Anthony Good Junior of Radio Bar, in Sunyani monitored by Apexnewsgh.com. According to the President, 72,900 out of over 90, 000 applicants have responded so far and these cut across all the various modules. Per President pronouncement during the radio interview, 25,000 NABCO beneficiaries will be maintained in Education Service, 16,000 beneficiaries will be maintained in Revenue Ghana, 13,000 beneficiaries will be maintained in Civil Ghana, 7,000 beneficiaries will be maintained in Digital Ghana, 5, 000 will be maintained Enterprise Ghana, 3,500 will be maintained in Feed Ghana and 2, 900 will be maintained in Heal Ghana by the end of October. President assured. However, not everyone will get the opportunity because, some have not responded to the questionnaire presented to them. Meanwhile, NABCO 3 years duration will be ending October 2021. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Ban on salary, allowance dollarisation still in force – FWSC to UTAG
The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has reminded members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) that the ban on the dollarisation of salaries and allowances is still in force. The reminder comes because the Commission said in advancing their arguments in support of the restoration of the value of lecturers’ remuneration to pre-Single Spine Pay Policy, the university lecturers, who are currently on strike over their salaries and allowances, have made references to the dollarisation of salaries of senior members of staff during the Kufuor era. Explaining what led to the cancellation of dollarisation of salaries, FWSC said “following protracted negotiations and the frequent disruption of the academic calendar, the government agreed with the Standing Joint Negotiation Committee of the universities to develop a five-year roadmap to solve the problem and pay rates that are mutually acceptable”. “The roadmap then sought to improve the levels of remunerations of universities senior members to a minimum of the cedi equivalent of $1,500 by December 2008. The greed amount was to cover basic salary and various allowances”. “After the end of the road map (2004-2008) general increase in salaries approved by will apply to academic senior members”. “At a meeting held on 15 December 2011 to discuss the migration of academic members of public universities onto the single spine salary structure, it was agreed, among others, that ‘The migration brings to an end the dollarisation of the basic salary, professional allowance and special book allowance of academic senior members of the public universities,’” FWSC explained in a statement. The communiqué to that effect, according to the statement, was signed by the Chief Executive of FWSC and the National President of UTAG on the above-stated date. The statement stated that the dollarisation of salaries and allowances, therefore, ceased with the migration of senior members of the public universities onto the single spine salary structure and Government policy on the matter has not changed. FWSC has, therefore, implored members of UTAG to respect the contents of the communiqué. —classfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093